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Unit Data Linking

One of the central ideas of the Cluster is the combination of research in the humanities with research from relevant areas from the natural sciences. The materials of written artefacts are analysed by scientists using new technologies, and different kinds of associated data are generated for artefact profiling purposes (e.g., X-ray data, spectral data, and possibly many new kinds of data, generally called profiling data, which, essentially, are numerical data). In addition, both scholars and scientists produce data concerning their research (e.g., documents for conference papers, articles or books, images, and all kinds of associated databases from specific investigations). In their documents and databases, researchers use various kinds of profiling data to flesh out research results, and support services are essential if scientists and scholars are to be helped in positively identifying the profiling data relevant to the arguments they propose and defend in the humanities. In the process of recording results, these services can be combined with other services to (automatically) find related documents and, e.g., entries in related databases, either available locally or accessed on the web. In the same spirit, researchers from the natural sciences can benefit from support services to find out in what contexts their data might be relevant and in which contexts their data are used. This is where data linking comes into play. Data linking supports research in the humanities and natural sciences in a non-obtrusive way and connects data to data and data to people without an overabundance of ever more new tools and prescribed workflows, but with the potential to connect scientists and scholars through an inspiring platform.